Immigrants, particularly on H1Bs, are the lifeblood of American innovation. If you wanted to hurt US competitiveness in the next century, I can think of few more effective ways than a move like this Even when found illegal, the mere intent will have irreparably harmed our future

As a former H-1B holder, I have no words...

#FluorescenceFriday: a weekly reminder that behind the data, there are moments of pure wonder. This is why we do what we do. And the #retina is so uniquely beautiful!

New preprints from the lab!! (2)

🎉 New preprints from the lab! (1) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@ucdavis.bsky.social had a great representation at the BAVRD!

"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

Exciting news! Dr. Marie Burns has been appointed the new Director of the Center for Neuroscience, and it's hard to imagine a better choice for this position! @ucdaviscns.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucd-cbha.bsky.social

Such beautiful work!

Our National Parks are treasures and we they need more than visitors, they need funding! Btw, #lassenvolcanicnationalpark is magical 💚

Snails with human-like eyes?! Published in @natcomms.nature.com, the @planaria1.bsky.social & @accorsi-alice.bsky.social Labs have established apple snails as a novel model for studying vision restoration. They have complex camera-type eyes & the ability to regrow them in 28 days: bit.ly/4mvaxkq

Congrats to @GGIPstudents and COVSL member Dr. Erin Hisey and her mentor @bcleonard on completing her exit seminar for her PhD! The future is super bright for her as she returns to complete her DVM @ucdavisvetmed.🍾🎉🎈#visionscience

Joseph is about to give a talk on his Hi-C data 🧃

NIH funding grants at 4% is a disgrace. Brilliant science will be shelved while lives hang in the balance. We’re gutting the future of medicine and burning decades of scientific progress #SaveScience #NIH

Congratulations to all! I'm so proud to have not one but two @ucd-physiology.bsky.social colleagues on this list! @doctheagrif.bsky.social and @elisazhang.bsky.social are rockstars and this is very well deserved!!! 🎉🎉

Not all heroes wear capes. Thank you, Dr. Norton and NIH staff for your courage!

Proud to be a signatory on this letter in support of the courageous staff at the NIH who penned the Bethesda Declaration to decry the ongoing politicization and damage to the US biomedical research infrastructure which has been the envy of the world.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Threats to federal-UC research partnerships will be devastating to the Californian economy and the USA leadership in worldwide innovation. It will have immediate impacts on many CA communities as UC is the 1/3 largest employer in CA.

🚨 Final Reminder! 🚨 Don't miss your chance to share your research at the ISER BrightFocus Glaucoma Meeting 2025! 📅 Abstract Submission Deadline: May 27, 2025 🔗 iserbrightfocusglaucoma.org/abstract-sub... @iser.bsky.social @brightfocus.bsky.social

This is why we do what we do. Watching exceptional trainees thrive is the best part of this job... Let’s make sure there’s a future for them.

We recently wrote a review about neuroimmune interactions in retinal repair. We dive into the literature regarding immune influences in Muller glia reprogramming, cell transplantation, and axon regeneration. Hopefully its useful, free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k-FL4pAsj...

In this strange times, attending #ARVO2025 has been a breath of fresh air. Inspired by the work, energized by the community and just so so grateful for the chance to spend time with friends and colleagues ❤

As always, @meyerlab.bsky.social gave a brilliant talk and as always, his images are just spectacular 🤩 #ARVO2025

The Retinal Development session at #ARVO2025 is just gorgeous. Adam Almeida gave a truly fantastic talk! 🤩

@ismaelhdeznunez.bsky.social just gave a brilliant talk at #ARVO2025

Celebrating a successful Utah Vision Science Symposium! A day of amazing science and people!

Truly grateful to all of the NIH staff who are working so hard and keeping everything going in these challenging times.

So you want to study the optic nerve head. You’re thinking a Pax2-Cre driver should work, right? Well, think again: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40300047/

Day 1 of the BDE Study Section is done. Loved the science, hated Microsoft Teams. That thing is a crime against efficiency 🙄

@accorsi-alice.bsky.social is the best! She truly has a vision for #VisionResearch. biology.ucdavis.edu/news/snail-r...

April 23th is #SantJordi! The day Catalans celebrate love and literature. And yes, we celebrate no matter where we are 🐉📚🌹 *in this dark times, we use any excuse to find a bit of joy

Consider a specific example such as merging the National Eye Institute into a larger brain institute. Are eyes part of the brain? Absolutely. Are there different concerns and difficult pools of grantees for eyes compared to other parts of the brain? Most definitely What are benefits and costs? 1/n

This is just senseless

Very excited to share (most of) my PhD work, in which we use human retinal organoids to understand how thyroid hormone signaling is regulated in the developing retina to promote robust and accurate photoreceptor subtype specification. Turns out, it's a lot more complicated than we expected. 1/n

Some days the lab is really in sync! *I took the pic because they're twinning but I'm constantly amazed by our trainees! I guess we need to keep hoping for a fact-based future for them

Cutting funds for science and research will save you a penny on the dollar but may one day cost you a life that you love.

If you are near the west coast and interested in #DevBio, please save the date for the West Coast SDB (WCSDB) @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting! It will be held at @calpolyslo.bsky.social in August!

Agree and thank you for doing this important work, @labonnelab.bsky.social! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Thank you, @doctheagrif.bsky.social, @rogerslabucd.bsky.social, and @elisazhang.bsky.social!! You made us so proud! #StandUpforScience

Make it make sense!

The end of an era... so many scientific fields have been shaped by Jon's contributions! I owe him a great deal and I know I'm not the only one

I don't know where this is all going but I American voters should NOT accept the USA lagging behind in global research and innovation #StandUpforScience

The Biology and Development of the Eye (BDE) Study Section just got postponed. I'm heartbroken and at loss for words...

Reminder that NIH grants are NOT reckless spending. They are extremely competitive. The mean success rate of all grants is <24%. Far lower for R01's that are the lifeblood of most academic labs. All the data can be found here: report.nih.gov/funding/nih-...

This is what NIH indirect costs are paying 👇

Our new review article with @michelcayouette.bsky.social is out on temporal patterning and glial reprogramming in adult CNS, and its implications for treating degenerative diseases. All work from our lab discussed here was funded by NIH. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kfup3Q9h2...

Please #standupforscience! Here’s the poster for our Sacramento event at the state capital. 🙏💪🔬🧪🧬🧫 Check DC and Local rally information pages to see where you can attend. @standupforscience.bsky.social

NIH research saves lives and powers the economy. In California, it supports ~56K jobs and $13.55B in economic activity. Cuts to NIH funding puts lives and livelihoods in jeopardy. Congress must act—tell your lawmakers to save medical research funding now! ucdav.is/4i4zFfB #SaveNIHresearch